SD cards
May 17, 2017 10:44:11 #
I would to see some of the pictures. I never have my camera with me when walking my dog in the early morning and thats when I see the resident fox. they are beautiful creatures.
May 17, 2017 11:18:55 #
al13 wrote:
I would to see some of the pictures. I never have my camera with me when walking my dog in the early morning and thats when I see the resident fox. they are beautiful creatures.
I'm going to post some on Saturday. I went back early this morning and didn't see any of them. Gary
May 17, 2017 11:19:31 #
May 17, 2017 11:22:29 #
al13 wrote:
Looking forward to seeing them
Thanx. I know there are 3 kits. I would love to get all of them in a shot.
May 17, 2017 11:28:50 #
mas24 wrote:
SanDisk and Lexar are your leading SD cards, and I own both brands, and have never had a problem with either. The earlier SD cards were expensive, and slow. I remember seeing and buying Class 2 cards of 2gb for the price of today's 16gb Class 10 cards today. If you get a fast read/write card in either a SanDisk or Lexar, you'll be just fine.
I have a dash cam that recommends Class 2 cards. Users have said that Class 10 doesn't work. Go figure!
May 17, 2017 12:16:33 #
photoman022
Loc: Manchester CT USA
When I first started in digitial photography (is already 10 years?!) I bought SD cards from Office Depot and Staples; they are still in service with my Nikon D40. Because I shoot in RAW I've bought new, 8 gig, cards for my D3200 and D3100. I bought SanDisk because they have a great reputation. I've used the same cards for 3 years without any problems.
Why 8 gig? Because I download my photos every day and a larger card would not be of much service. Also, I have 10 8 gig cards. I've only filled a card two or three times in 3 years.
Why 8 gig? Because I download my photos every day and a larger card would not be of much service. Also, I have 10 8 gig cards. I've only filled a card two or three times in 3 years.
May 17, 2017 12:42:56 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
jerryc41 wrote:
I have a dash cam that recommends Class 2 cards. Users have said that Class 10 doesn't work. Go figure!
I searched for that SD card and found it. I made a mistake. It is actually a 4gb Class 2 SD Card. Made by Lexar. Still brand new, never used. It must be about 7 years old. It should work on my current 3 cameras. I'll give it a try next next time. I buy 16 or 32gb Class 10 now. This one is an antique now.
May 17, 2017 12:47:10 #
mas24 wrote:
I searched for that SD card and found it. I made a mistake. It is actually a 4gb Class 2 SD Card. Made by Lexar. Still brand new, never used. It must be about 7 years old. It should work on my current 3 cameras. I'll give it a try next next time. I buy 16 or 32gb Class 10 now. This one is an antique now.
A seven year old antique. That's what happens with photo gear.
May 17, 2017 12:49:08 #
May 17, 2017 14:39:00 #
jmcgloth wrote:
FISH? It's a mammal.
...and they ALL look happy! It could be angry or upset and we'd never know...lol...
May 17, 2017 15:12:43 #
I've used some of the cheaper cards of different brands as well as some good ones and I've never had any fail. That being said I'm using Sandisk Extreme Pro and Sandisk Extreme in my D7100 not so much because I think my data is safer but it really sucks if your shooting heavy and fill your buffer then have to wait for it to clear and in those moments a good high speed card are worth every penny!
On the same subject I just recently had to buy several new cards as I just picked up a Nikon 1 J5 to replace my older J1 and it takes Micro SD Cards. Since I had to buy them anyway I picked up a few different types to see if there was much of a difference, especially since the J5 can shoot 20 frames a second (or actually up to 60) filling the buffer is very easy to do. So at any rate I did a little informal testing with the different cards filling the buffer then timing the cards. I also tested using the reset times on the Slow motion video clips since on the J5 they are limited to three seconds so often you will try to take several clips if possible.
Anyway here is a short version of what I came up with with the attached PDF being the Original Document (I didn't realize I could just attach it until AFTER I typed all of this up - Duh!)
When I did the burst I was shooting in RAW + Fine Jpeg with the buffer being good for 20 frames and the Camera having to process and write about 700mb of files per burst.
I then measured from the time time the shutter button was pressed until I had half of the buffer available (10 frames), the full buffer available (20 frames) and then finally when the memory card Access Light went out / processing stopped for each card.
I repeated this three times then averaged the results. Also I noticed that other things impacted the times like focusing the camera to check the buffer level (the first time for each card took longer because I was checking more often for when the various points would be reached, so if I was to shoot burst mode I would definitely use AF-S only and limit focusing if my buffer wasn't clear.
Anyway here are the numbers for what I had in my little test
Time To---------------------------> | 10F Avail_ | Buffer Clear_ | Write Complete
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Lexar 32gb 1000x U3, HC II, C10 | 15 Sec____ | 1 Min 3 Sec_ | 1 Min 33 Sec
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Samsung Pro 21gb, U3 HC I ____ | 15 Sec____ | 1 Min 6 Sec_ | 1 Min 40 Sec
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SanDisk Ultra 32gb, U1, HC I ___ | 11 Sec____ | 1 Min 0 Sec_ | 1 Min 41 Sec
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PNY 32gb Class 4 (Basic Card) __ | 14 Sec____ | 1 Min 41 Sec | 2 Min 50 Sec
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Surprisingly when I did the Slow Motion Video Clips at different resolutions all of the better cards performed about the same, with resets of under 5 seconds / 2 seconds after the previous clip stopped recording) for 120 & 400 fps clips with the 1200fps clips running from 10.5-12 seconds due to processing, with the PNY card lagging by 1.5 seconds @ 400 FPS and 1.5-3 seconds at 1200fps.
So looking at all of this my take on it is a faster card is good, but unless you try different brands / speeds with your particular camera it's still a crap shoot any you may not get any better performance out of a $50 card than you do a $25 one based more on luck of the draw than anything.
On the same subject I just recently had to buy several new cards as I just picked up a Nikon 1 J5 to replace my older J1 and it takes Micro SD Cards. Since I had to buy them anyway I picked up a few different types to see if there was much of a difference, especially since the J5 can shoot 20 frames a second (or actually up to 60) filling the buffer is very easy to do. So at any rate I did a little informal testing with the different cards filling the buffer then timing the cards. I also tested using the reset times on the Slow motion video clips since on the J5 they are limited to three seconds so often you will try to take several clips if possible.
Anyway here is a short version of what I came up with with the attached PDF being the Original Document (I didn't realize I could just attach it until AFTER I typed all of this up - Duh!)
When I did the burst I was shooting in RAW + Fine Jpeg with the buffer being good for 20 frames and the Camera having to process and write about 700mb of files per burst.
I then measured from the time time the shutter button was pressed until I had half of the buffer available (10 frames), the full buffer available (20 frames) and then finally when the memory card Access Light went out / processing stopped for each card.
I repeated this three times then averaged the results. Also I noticed that other things impacted the times like focusing the camera to check the buffer level (the first time for each card took longer because I was checking more often for when the various points would be reached, so if I was to shoot burst mode I would definitely use AF-S only and limit focusing if my buffer wasn't clear.
Anyway here are the numbers for what I had in my little test
Time To---------------------------> | 10F Avail_ | Buffer Clear_ | Write Complete
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lexar 32gb 1000x U3, HC II, C10 | 15 Sec____ | 1 Min 3 Sec_ | 1 Min 33 Sec
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Samsung Pro 21gb, U3 HC I ____ | 15 Sec____ | 1 Min 6 Sec_ | 1 Min 40 Sec
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SanDisk Ultra 32gb, U1, HC I ___ | 11 Sec____ | 1 Min 0 Sec_ | 1 Min 41 Sec
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PNY 32gb Class 4 (Basic Card) __ | 14 Sec____ | 1 Min 41 Sec | 2 Min 50 Sec
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Surprisingly when I did the Slow Motion Video Clips at different resolutions all of the better cards performed about the same, with resets of under 5 seconds / 2 seconds after the previous clip stopped recording) for 120 & 400 fps clips with the 1200fps clips running from 10.5-12 seconds due to processing, with the PNY card lagging by 1.5 seconds @ 400 FPS and 1.5-3 seconds at 1200fps.
So looking at all of this my take on it is a faster card is good, but unless you try different brands / speeds with your particular camera it's still a crap shoot any you may not get any better performance out of a $50 card than you do a $25 one based more on luck of the draw than anything.
May 17, 2017 15:21:51 #
Howie1a wrote:
How good of a SD card do you really need are the higher cost ones much better than the bargain ones I happen to like the San Disk extreme cards but that is my choice I have used other cards and not been able to see much difference. Howie1a
I've got a mix of eight-nine Sandisk and Lexar. The price is low enough and they last close to forever. I'm sure some other cards are just as good, but Sandisk invented the things and Lexar was into them pretty much at the beginning. I watched Sandisk run a cement truck over some. The data was there. I don't have a cement truck in sight.
May 17, 2017 16:40:40 #
May 17, 2017 19:22:55 #
I use SanDisk and Lexar in my Nikon D7100. Use 32GB cards with a decent write speed, don't care about the read speed.
Don
Don
May 18, 2017 01:58:37 #
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